We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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